2 Samuel 24:23

23 Your Majesty, Araunah^[a] gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

2 Samuel 24:23 in Other Translations

23 All these things did Araunah, as a king, give unto the king. And Araunah said unto the king, The LORD thy God accept thee.

23 All this, O king, Araunah gives to the king." And Araunah said to the king, "May the LORD your God accept you."

23 I will give it all to you, Your Majesty, and may the LORD your God accept your sacrifice.”

23 - Araunah gives it all to the king! And may God, your God, act in your favor."

23 [My] king, Araunah gives everything here to the king." Then he said to the king, "May the Lord your God accept you."

2 Samuel 24:23 Meaning and Commentary

2 Samuel 24:23

All these [things] did Araunah, [as] a king, give unto the
king
The note of similitude as is not in the text; from whence some have thought he was king of the Jebusites before Jerusalem was taken out of their hands, or however was of the royal race, perhaps the son and heir of the then king at that time; or he has this title given him, because of his great liberality, having the spirit of a prince in him, even of a king; so Ulysses addressed Antinous, saying, thou art like a king, and therefore should give more largely than others ^F8:

and Araunah said unto the king, the Lord thy God accept thee;
thine offering with a good will; with pleasure and delight, as the Targum; that so the plague might be removed, and which no doubt made him the more ready to part with the above things, and all that he had; so dreadful did the calamity appear to him, and especially after he saw the angel with his drawn sword just over him.

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FOOTNOTES:

F8 Homer. Odyss. 17. ver. 335.

2 Samuel 24:23 In-Context

21 Araunah said, “Why has my lord the king come to his servant?” “To buy your threshing floor,” David answered, “so I can build an altar to the LORD, that the plague on the people may be stopped.”

22 Araunah said to David, “Let my lord the king take whatever he wishes and offer it up. Here are oxen for the burnt offering, and here are threshing sledges and ox yokes for the wood.

23 Your Majesty, Araunah gives all this to the king.” Araunah also said to him, “May the LORD your God accept you.”

24 But the king replied to Araunah, “No, I insist on paying you for it. I will not sacrifice to the LORD my God burnt offerings that cost me nothing.” So David bought the threshing floor and the oxen and paid fifty shekels of silver for them.

25 David built an altar to the LORD there and sacrificed burnt offerings and fellowship offerings. Then the LORD answered his prayer in behalf of the land, and the plague on Israel was stopped.

Cross References

• 1. Genesis 23:11; Ezekiel 20:40-41

Footnotes

• [a]. Some Hebrew manuscripts and Septuagint; most Hebrew manuscripts "King Araunah"